. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . Kil, us 8(X)ii as Tin: THE OLD (lALAGO SKEDADDLES. 103 darkness makes its appearance, it prepares itself to goout of its lair in search of food. It loves to feed uponinsects, sucli as cockroaches, etc.; but, besides insects, itfeeds on the fruits, berries, and nuts of the forest. Longbefore daylight it retires to its lair, and remains thereduring the whole day. It climbs about on trees frombranch to branch like a monkey, and uses its for-e feetlike hands, as the monkey does, only it
. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . Kil, us 8(X)ii as Tin: THE OLD (lALAGO SKEDADDLES. 103 darkness makes its appearance, it prepares itself to goout of its lair in search of food. It loves to feed uponinsects, sucli as cockroaches, etc.; but, besides insects, itfeeds on the fruits, berries, and nuts of the forest. Longbefore daylight it retires to its lair, and remains thereduring the whole day. It climbs about on trees frombranch to branch like a monkey, and uses its for-e feetlike hands, as the monkey does, only it is far from beingas agile as a monkey. One fine morning I looked for the little galago, butshe was not to be found. The string that held her hadbroken during the night, and she had sledaddled forparts unknown in the forest. I ha\e often thought thatif the galagos have a language of their own, my prison-er will have strange tales to tell of her captivity, and theonly thing I could do after lier fliglit was to wisli thatshe might be happy once more in tiie woods, and thatshe might find her mate CHAPTER XYl. JACK, THE MONKEY. HUNTING MONKEYS WITH DOGS.— GREAT FIGHT BETWEEN TWO DOGS AND A NKAGO. CAP- TUKE OF A YOUNG NKAGO.—I GIVE HIM THE NA]\IE OBJACK. While in tlie Apingi coHntry, I had a queer littlefriend of which you have not heard yet. That fi-iendwas a little monkey which I had captured some timeago. It went by the name of Jack; or sometimes wascalled Jack Nkago, on account of his sj)ecies being calledNkago by the nati\es. Jack was a dear little fellow, be-longing to a family of monkeys called commonly by ourselves Mangabey, and, as he has been tiaveling with mefor a long while, it has occurred to me that you wouldlike to hear about him^iow I captured him, how Iraised him, and how I made a kind of civilized boy ofhim. Now let me tell you that Jack was a great friendof mine, and wiierever I traveled he ti-avelod also. I must relate to you my first acquaintance wit
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